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| Rickard:
Cheers Adev , Being a real self taught / trial and error, monkey with a dangerous tool, I really don't have any place to reinvent 100's of years of engineering buy Craftsmen who know better. my whole thing is I race Model Slot Cars, and I have to make tools I can't buy like a miniature lathe/mill and tooling on the order of the Clisby. I seriously need a lathe with a 1" swing and 4"-5" bed. I'm building something like my Unimat DB but scaled down to fit in my slot car box :) the biggest part I'll need to drill / mill will be on the order of 1"x1"x2" :) thanxs for the ideas |
| Bernd:
Richard, How about some pics of those slot cars? Haven't heard anything about slot cars in a long time. Had a set many moons ago when I was a kid, HO scale if I recall right. They had some kind of vibrating device that made them go, if I remember right. Aroura (sp?) was a slot car maker too, wasn't it? Bernd |
| Bogstandard:
TroyO, Don't bother, I have tried to drill them out using diamond coated tube drills designed for drilling glass. All it did was rip the diamond coating off. The only thing that I think would be successful is spark erosion. BTW, UNC is very close to Whit threads, and in a lot of cases, either mixture will sometimes screw together enough to clamp up and get you going. Plus Mr Whitworth was the man who got everyone to standardise their threads, and without him, you people would still be hand making nuts and bolts for individual fitting, so don't knock it. John |
| Corvus corax:
Can one still get Whit dies? I guess I could make some studs for them. My 9x20 is the metricv ariant and the few times I've tried to cut UNF thread ( Haven't tried to set up for UNC yet) it came out wrong. I suspect due to mistakes in the lists of gear combos for imperial thread. |
| Bogstandard:
I buy all my tap & die sets from here. They look expensive, but in reality, if you bought everything individually, they would cost a lot more. I have yet to find any others that cut stainless as well as these. http://www.tapdie.com/html/wooden_box_taps__dies__holders.html Click on the blue prices at the RH side of the list to see all about the set. John |
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